iPod Course Design
Do you have effective pedagogical strategies for the iPod? Do you know how to plan and design content for the device? Start here.Read the Full Article
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Deals in Textbook Business Make Irishman a Leader in U.S. Publishing
LONDON, July 22 — Who in the world is Barry O’Callaghan? And why is he turning a small Irish software company into a giant American textbook publisher?Read the Full Article
The Future of Search: The head of Google Research talks about his group’s projects.
Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, is an expert ace at building machines that answer tough questions. An authority in programming languages and artificial intelligence, he has written an oft-cited book on AI (Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach), has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California, and was the […]
2 Kinds of Part-Time Students
A report released Wednesday by the U.S. Education Department provides a detailed look at the characteristics of part-time college students — and most of the results won’t surprise those who work with these students. Compared to full-time students, part timers are more likely to be older, female, Hispanic, financially independent of their parents, first-generation college […]
The Sites Teachers Choose: A Gauge of Classroom Web Use
The pervasive nature of the Internet, both in society and in America’s schools, leads teacher educators to wonder how this dynamic tool is being utilized in the classroom and, especially, if it is benefiting students’ understanding. This study analyzed 127 Web sites self-reported by in-service teachers as excellent for teaching. From these data, a majority […]
Temple U Solves Content Management Challenge
With roughly half a million pages of content on more than 500 well used Web sites, Temple University faced a huge challenge in getting content management under control.Read the Full Article
The Florida Folklife Digitization and Education
The State Library and Archives of Florida’s Florida Folklife Digitization and Education Project was a two–year IMLS–funded project intended to enhance access to the Florida Folklife Collection, to develop educational resources based on the Collection, and to make these cultural and educational resources accessible to lifelong learners on the Florida Memory Project Web site at […]
VIVO: Connecting People, Creating a Virtual Life Sciences Community
To help faculty, researchers, and students in the life sciences discover common interests and make connections, the Cornell University Library has created a virtual life sciences community that uses an entity-relationship ontology model to organize and present information on people, research, and education activities. This single point of access for scholarly activity in the life […]
Classical Rhetoric and Digital Communication: A Canon Blast into the Net
Welcome to the first special issue under the new Kairos organization model. This issue features two items of interest for readers: the first Kairos publication of the annual CCCC’s Reviews and the Topoi section’s presentation of “Classical Rhetoric and Digital Communication: A Canon Blast into the Net.”Read the Full Article